Aaaarrrggghhh!! Name your household pet peeves

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

I hate it when it's laundry day and I forgot I had a Kleenex in a jeans pocket.

[Dora]

1. Rubbermaid and other plastics storage.

No matter how well I organize the cabinet, it eventually becomes a plastic container explosion, and I can never find the container I want.

[spinbaby]

3. The trick here is...

...to settle on just one or two sizes of container and throw all the others out. Then you can always find a container and a lid and you take up a lot less storage space besides. That's the theory, anyway--I always seem to have so many more kinds of containers and mean to throw them out but can't bring myself to do it.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Hard to do - I love my containers!

Hard to throw anything away!

[Dora]

6. But,

the mid-size containers are great for our leftovers

the big containers are good for holding batches of cookie dough, cut melon, and tamales in-process

the small containers are the right size for the yogurt I take to work

the teeny containers are just so cute I haven't the heart to throw them away

[LisaM]

2. My boyfriend and his entire family

leave drawers and cupboards open. Consequently, our silverware drawer is always full of crumbs. In fact, "crumb" should be their middle name, as they also leave them in butter and mayonnaise and peanut butter.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. Shudder - that reminds me of my dad's unpleasant pop drinking habits

He'd drink half a bottle (he died in 1983; we used bottles back then!), then put the bottle back in the refrigerator. Then he'd get it out and take swigs occasionally, and somehow his swigging style made him get crumbs from whatever he'd been eating in the bottle. Yikes and gadzooks!

[progmom]

7. and you say you're not like your sister....

[LisaM]

9. Hey! At least you can tell when I've read my newspaper

and I don't wash my dishes while I'm still using them.

[barb162]

31. your last sentence is making me laugh

[Lilyhoney]

35. I used to leave the kitchen cabinets open all the time.

Which made my OCD husband nuts. So one day I just took all the cabinet doors off and life is better.

I get up every morning to a sopping wet bathroom from him. Nothing like getting out of bed to go potty and find that there are drips of water dripping on my head, water running down the walls, puddles on the floor, the toilet paper is damp. He takes such a steamy shower, everything is just wet. Some mornings I just let it go. But some days I can't.

[Dora]

8. One more, a new one

Our babysitter makes toast with butter and jam.

She must slather the knife with butter before sticking it into the jam jar, because it has turned our jam jar into a congealed mess.

[zanne]

10. Cleaning the house.

I could list all the individual chores, but basically, I hate to clean the house.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

33. i'm also cleaning-impaired... and looking for a 12-stepper

my philosophy...why do housework when in 6 months ya gotta do it again

[Debi]

11. I never get all the garbage out- there's always one more bag that I missed

I can never fit all the dishes in the dishwasher.

There is always one piece of red clothing that didn't get put in with the red laundry.

My biggest peeve:

Where the hell did all these cobwebs come from????

[texas1928]

21. Pink?

[Debi]

22. Only if I wash it with

White!

Do you recall how we started this color thing...I know...do you?

[texas1928]

24. Yes

the Dupe thread.

[Debi]

26. Ahhhhh

The Dupe Thread...

What is the Color of Karma?

[Rising Phoenix]

12. Nobody at my mom's house...

Refills the Brita, so it sits in the fridge, empty, they take the time to put it back in the fridge, but not to fill it

[Maestro]

13. I detest artificial light during the day

Open the blinds and get some freakin' sunlight. My wife will turn the damn light in bathroom when she could easiy open the blinds.

[Flaxbee]

28. oh, I HATE artificial light, but I especially hate overhead lighting

... something about that horrible light right in the middle of the ceiling drives me psycho. Side lights (lamps), alcove lights, etc., are all fine. But overhead lights and I'm immediately a cranky bitch. My husband has finally learned not to come into the kitchen and turn the damn light overhead flourescent crapola lights on. He now turns on either the side lights, or the under-cabinet lights, or both, but never the overhead light. Only time you need bright light in the kitchen is when cooking.

[Maestro]

38. I am soooooooo with you.

My wife doesn't understand my aversion to overhead, sterile, fluorescent lighting. It really does make me mad just to be in a room with that sort of direct lighting. And then if I see this lighting during the daytime, it's even worse!

[progmom]

14. nothing to see here

[Debi]

16. T.M.I.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

18. Indeed!

[progmom]

20. really? i'm sorry.

[Debi]

23. But since were there

does the rug match the curtains?

[progmom]

27. i edited my post

[Debi]

30. I WAS just picking on you.

[stellanoir]

19. Now dearie

if you REALLY loved him, you'd love him short & curlies and all.

Hurrrumphhhh !

No seriously, use Dr. Bronner's Peppermint (liquid) Soap (the best genital soap on the planet according to my buddy the oriental doctor) and it'll be a total non issue

[Debi]

25. STOP THE MADNESS

I can't look...

[bearfan454]

15. No towel in the kitchen

That pisses me off worse than anything.

[stellanoir]

17. That "Baldwin" (my imaginary valet)

is a total incompetant and complete and utter slob.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

29. Male roommates...

who will not clean the pee that dribbles down the surface of the toilet base when they take a leak. Every damn male roomie I have ever had leaves the toilet looking tiger-striped with old urine.

That, and not cleaning up the urine drips on the toilet seat.

Gack.

[DS1]

32. Roommates.

.

[dajoki]

34. mother in law calls...

at least 30 times a day.

[MiniMandaRuth]

36. When the faucet drips, or the dog farts

Simple enough, simple enough.

[barb162]

37. I am the only person in the fucking universe

who knows how to change a toilet paper roll. Everyone else just knows to leave a few sheets